MUMBAI: Amrita TV has announced its plans of bidding goodbye to 2012 and welcoming 2013.

The channel will air live a four-and-a-half hour long New Year eve Party from Sreemoolam Club from 8 pm on the 31 December. It will be an event which will witness music, dance and comedy performances by celebrities from playback, cinema and the pop scene. The artists performing would include Naresh Iyer, Manjari, Mayuri, Iti Acharya and Manjula.

Amrita TV will air a National Round-Up at 7.30 am on the 29 December. It will be a compilation of selected news features that had dominated the Nation in the political, social and cultural spheres.

It will also telecast Entertainment Round-Up at 8.30am on 30 December that will re-wind over the main releases of the past 365 days. Meanwhile, it will run Sports Round Up at 8.30 am on the 31 December. Sports Round Up will be a run- through of the heavyweights in the sporting arena from the Olympics to the Grand Slams.

On January 1, Amrita TV will treat the viewers with Super Hits 2012, at 7.00am. It will feature a sequence of the universal favourites which had been famous during the preceding year.

The celebration will go on in full swing in Glorious Malayalam Films 2012 at 7.30 am, as spools of the top grossers of 2012.

After that, it will air Cocktail starring Anoop Menon, Jayasurya and Samvratha Sunil at 9 am. The movie is a blend of extramarital thrill, passion and suspense. Following Cocktail would be telecast Kanihayodoppam at 12.30 pm.

The New Year evening winds down with a three hour musical event beginning from 2 pm. Lining up the playback stars, it highlights unforgettable songs of Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, Manna Dey, Talat Mohammed, Soundarajan, Yesudas, Jayachandran,P Susheela and P Leela.